Wrist watch adapter



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WRIST WATCH ADAPTER March 31; was.

Filed May 11, 1935 Edwin J.

Patented Mar. 31 1936 UNl'lE STATES.

PATENT OFFICE WRIST WATCH ADAPTER Application May 11,

7 Claims.

' The present invention relates generally to guards for watches,especially guards of that type connected at their upper ends through thebuttonholes of coat lapels for watches carried in the '5 upper outsidecoat pockets. The increasingly popular guards of this nature have up tothe present been limited to use with pocket or bow watches, and it isthe primary object of my invention to enlarge their use to include wristwatches.

I not only aim to permit of the ready use of wrist watches as pocketWatches with guards of the-above type, but it is a further object of myinvention to provide a combined guard and wrist watch adapter therefor,that is a guard having asa permanent part thereof means readilyattachable to the pintle or strap attaching bars of wrist watches.

It is well known that wrist watches, while varying in shape andornamentation, are practically standard in respect to the spacing oftheir end lugs as well as the lengths of the pintle bars which extendbetween such lugs, and are commonly removably engaged therewith byspringextended endwise projecting pintle pins projecting into openingsin the lugs.

It is for the above reason that my invention proposes a guard which, forthe purposes set forth, has a pair of diverging extensions at one endprovided with wrist watch attaching means including a pair of rigidtubular members adapted to receive the pintle bars of a wrist watch.

These objects and the various other aims and resulting advantages of myinvention clearly ap- 35 pear in the course of the following detaileddescription, referring to the accompanying drawing, which forms a partof this specification and in which,

Figure 1 is a partial front view illustrating the practical applicationof my invention.

Figure 2 is a front view of the two-strand guard of Figure 1 attached toa watch.

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view through one end of the watch caseand the guard attaching means.

Figure 4 is a detail horizontal section taken on line 4--4 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a detail cross section on line 5-5 of Figure 2, and

Figure 6 is a View similar to Figure 2 showing a single-strand guardwith an upper button and a lower attached watch engaging portion.

Referring now to these figures and especially to Figure 1, I have showna two-strand guard A whose upper bight end may be extended forward-1935, Serial No. 21,056

ly through the buttonhole b of a coat lapel B, whereby the watch Cattached to the lower ends of the strands of guard A may be passedthrough the loop thus formed so as to complete a sliploop connectionwith the lapel B, the watch C being carried in the upper outside coatpocket D.

For the purpose of attaching and carrying a wrist watch, the lower endsof the strands of the guard A, which may be brought together at anypoint by an adjustable band I therearound, are each provided with anattaching member consisting of a pair of parallel tubes I I and I2 inone of which, tube 12, the lower end of the respective strand issecurely anchored.

The tubes of each attaching member may be formed integral with oneanother from a single piece of material or may be attached to oneanother by soldering, brazing and the like. Furthermore while I haveshown the two tubes of each attaching member of the same length, thelength of the strand anchoring outside tube I2 is more or lessimmaterial while that of the inwardly offset tube I I must be such aswill permit the tube to be extended endwise between the end lugs I3 ofthe watch case and its inside diameter must be such as to receive therespective pintle bar I4.

It is obvious that upon removal of the two pintle bars I4 by inwardpressure against the spring-extended pintle pins I which normallyproject endwise from the bars I4 into apertures of the case lugs I3, thetubes I I of the two attaching members may be sleeved on the pintle barsand inserted between the end lugs I3 for connection by again letting thepintle pins I5 project into the lug apertures.

In Figure 6 an arrangement is shown in which although the abovedescribed connection with the watch is carried out in a similar mannerand by similar means, the guard is in a single strand E. The upper endof this one strand guard carries a button e which may be projectedforwardly through the buttonhole of a coat lapel to seat on the uppersurface of the lapel. One of the attaching members, including tubes IIand I 2 is fixed either to the lower end of the strand E in the mannerbefore described or to an intermediate portion thereof depending uponwhether or not it is desired to have a portion E of the strand extendbelow and along the case of the wrist watch. The other attaching memberIl I2 is similarly secured to either a short strand E secured at itsupper end to the strand E above the watch case as by neans of a clampIE, or said strand E may be a continuation of the portion E.

bars at diametrically opposed points, each of said strands having at itsfree end a member formed to receive one of said pintle bars.

2. A watch guard having diverging flexible strand extensions at itslower end for connection with a wrist watch of the type havingdiametrically opposed end lugs and pintle bars between and in removableassociation with said end lugs, each of said strands having at its freeend a tubular member said strands being of a length permitting thetubular members thereof to be positioned at diametrically opposite sidesof the watch and around the pintle bars and between the end lugsthereof.

3. A watch guard having extensions at its lower end, each of saidextensions having an attaching member consisting, of parallel rigidlyconnected tubular portions in one of which the extension is anchored,the other tubular portion of each member being positionable between thepintle bar lugs of a wrist watch and around the removable pintle barcarried by said lugs.

4. A watch guard having extensions at its lower end, and attachingmembers for connection with a wrist watch of the type having spacedapart end lugs and pintle bars removably in engagement with said endlugs, each of said attaching members consisting of a tubular portion inwhich the respective guard extension is anchored, and a second tubularmember positionable around one of the pintle bars between the respectivewatch lugs.

5. A watch guard for a wrist watch of the type having diametricallyopposed pintle bars, said guard consisting of a flexible member havingflexible divergent extensions at its lower end of a length to positionthe ends of said extensions adjacent to the pintle bars, and meanscarried by the said ends of the extensions for engagement with thepintle bars.

6. A watch guard for a wrist watch of the type having diametricallyopposed pintle bars, said guard consisting of a flexible suspensionmemher having flexible divergent extensions at its lower end of a lengthto position the end portions of said extensions adjacent to said pintlebars, and means carried by, and paralleling, the said end portions forreceiving the said pintle bars.

'7. A watch guard for a wrist watch of the type having diametricallyopposed pintle bars, said guard consisting of a flexible suspensionmember having similar divergent flexible extensions at its lower end ofa combinedlength to position the ends of said extensions adjacent to thepintle bars of the watch, and means at the ends of said extensions toengage the pintle bars to support a watch in balanced relation at thelower end of the guard.

EDWIN S. MIX.

